Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-01-13
Terry's Lucky Widow.

There Is long and curious story be-
hind the announcement made, with q
good deal of sensational flourish, that q
fortune Of S7,O00.OO0 mas been left to
Mrs. Kate Louise Terry by her late hus-
band, Ivan Petro Terry. who died in
Paris, where the lucky widow is still
living. The $7,000,000 will probably
be cut down a good deal, but if the for
tune reaches half that sum Mrs. Terry
is an extraordinarily fortunate woman.
OF the lady the Hartford Times says:
Her life up to the present time, if ac-
curately depicted in a novel, would
make interesting reading. Kate Louise
Norman Cher maiden nancy came
hither from England in childhood with
her father. who settled in Brooklyn,
aud eventually became a judge there.
She is now about so years Of age. hand
some, of good figure, and a style that
has good deal of dash in it. 1t was
to her good looks and her style that she
owed her courtroom marriage to Ivan
=. Terry. Before that she had been the
wife of the notorious bank burglar,
Charley Billiard, who is now said to be
serving long term of Imprisonment in
Belgium. The marriage TO Billiard took
place in England, where she was visit
ing, when she was about 10 years old.
Billiard then went by the name of
Charles Wells. He was smart fellow.
with fine address and plenty of spend
ing money, and the girl he married
knew nothing about his real character.
He took her to Paris, where he opened
sort of American bar-room on a
snowy scale, and installed his pretty
young wife rs cashier. She naturally
attracted good deal of notice. and the
venture prospered for while. Billiard
gave it up, however, and brought his
wife to New York. Ii was then she
found out who and what he was.
Another wife soon turned up, and the
couple separated, never to meet again.
The second wife took her two children
and went off on her own account How
she lived till she met Terry does not
appear TO be known. He was the son
of millionaire sugar-planter IN Cuba,
and had made some money himself.
They were married without any loss of
time, but the subsequent proceedings
were not entirely harmonious. A num-
Der of little unpleasantnesses occurred,
and led up finally to q police-court sem
sation. Mrs. Terry was of decidedly
jealous turn. and once on going through
her husbands pockets, after the manner
of wideawake wives, she found y gush-
ing letter from = young woman explain
ing why certain appointment was not
kept. 1t is needless TO say that tho let
ter did not improve Mrs. Terrys state
of mind. After thinking while she
set trap for the young woman, and
caught her in it. Then she called on
her at her home 20 give her talking
to, and got turned out for her pains.
That warmed her up still more, and her
next step was to make charge against
the young woman Of approprating GER
tain money that she said she missed.
Then came the police-court sensation,
in which the two women played prom
inent parts, and which the reporters
had a fine time writing up. After a
great deal of wrangling the charge was
dismissed, and the second woman, q
Miss Atwood, soon after retaliated by
suing Mrs. Terry for SANDER She
claimed $4,000 damages, and a jury
awarded her $500. but as Mrs Terry
had no property in her name to levy on
the Judgment is still unpaid. Miss At
wood will try pretty hard to collect it
when Mrs. Terry returns to New York
as millionaire widow, If she does re-
turn. Her husbands will has been re-
ceived there for probate, and she will
probably follow it. The unborn child
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